Political Theory

Nothing government can do can take away our freedom; and if we are a people who are truly free, the government will have to follow.

Several years ago, I wrote a diatribe against Jean Elshtain's Just War Against Terror. She was not altogether pleased by this and sent in a letter of protest, which evoked yet more venom from me.

Libertarians of course believe in the free market; if you find someone who favors the government provision of medical care or education, e.g., you know immediately that he is not a full-fledged libertarian.

The Constitution spelled out that the federal government is limited to certain powers. Is it allowed? should be the first question about any proposed legislation. Today there are no recognized limits. The Supreme Court declared in the late 1930s that everything the federal government does will be assumed to be constitutional.

As a decentralized communication system facilitating the sending and receiving of messages by billions of people, the Internet has greatly shifted

Recorded at Mises University 2008.

Recorded at Mises University 2008.

Financial institutions will not only have mercantile "protection" from the federal government in terms of regulations; they will become social arms of that government.

There comes a time in the life of every believer in freedom when he must declare, without any hesitation, to have no attachment to the idea of conservatism.

But in fact, they have become responsible for great evil, the leading one of which is to contribute to the great lie that government is doing good for us.